The Problem with LGF: Everyone Knows the Memos Came from Rove

The biggest and proudest accomplishment over at the Little Green Footballs blog is the fact that they were the ones who blew the lid off and exposed the fact that the CBS TANG memos were forgeries.

LGF has a special link to the post where it all happened on the front page of the blog.

For days ... weeks ... months ... the LGF folks basked in the glory of having gotten Dan Rather and Mary Mapes canned.

Few people adore and admire Charles Johnson of LGF as little as I do.

My appreciation for the guy's writing knows very specific limits ...

My love for him personally is totally conditional on him maintaining a level of respect for people who are different from him, either by culture or ethnic background ... and he never lives up to these conditions.

So, it's with great pains that I must express the current problem that LGF has:

Just about everyone out there believes that the forged CBS TANG memos came from Rove.

It's been a while.

The dust has settled.

Mary Mapes was fired.

Dan Rather quit.

LGF emerged victorious!

The only problem is ...

Everybody believes that the CBS TANG memos came from Karl Rove.  They believe that he had them typed up.  They believe that he had them planted.  They believe that they know who planted them (Stone) and they believe that they know who was intended to break the story that they were forged (Powerline).

Certainty rules the day on these points and howevermuch LGF wants to believe that the big story of the memos is that they were forgeries ...  The real story is that they were forgeries planted by Karl Rove.

LGF was never intended to break the story before Powerline did.  But they did.  Mr. Johnson, apparently acting independently, got the story out about the memo forgeries before he received the "gotcha" e-mails that were sent from operators in George Bush's political network.  These "gotcha" e-mails were to inform bloggers that the CBS TANG memos weren't real.

LGF scooped the scoopers.

The problem is:

The forgeries came from Karl Rove.

If, indeed, the folks at LGF want to expose media bias, I suggest that they do a little bit of investigative reporting regarding exactly where the memos came from.

I suggest that they report how it is that LGF received notice from operatives in George Bush's network shortly after the CBS broadcast that the memos were fake.

I suggest that they report on how and why Mike Krempasky, graduate of the same journalism "institute" as Jeff Gannon, registered Rathergate.com in such a short term period after the memos came to light.

I suggest they report on how Jeff Gannon bragged on Free Republic that he delivered the scoop about the forged memos to Sean Hannity shortly after the broadcast.  How did Gannon know they were forgeries?

LGF, so proud of their role in the unseating of Dan Rather.  The problem is, they were just unwitting fools doing Karl Rove's dirty work for him ... and they didn't even get paid.

•  Everything the WH does is propaganda

  none of it is real.  Bush's poll numbers are sinking, so lets release some information about a guy who we arrested 2 years ago, and claim he tried to kill the president.

  by pacified on Tue Feb 22, 2005 at 02:29:31 PM PDT

•  They don't have

  the balls.

  by reef the dog on Tue Feb 22, 2005 at 02:32:18 PM PDT

  •  re

    Bingo.

    Cowards. All of them.

    by cookiesandmilk on Tue Feb 22, 2005 at 02:45:10 PM PDT

•  It would be nice,

  if "everyone believes" that the CBS TANG letters were a Rove psy-op, that there would eventually be a major media story about this.

  Don't hold your breath. "Everyone" does not believe this, and absent a Deep Throatish source, this story will never happen.

  Maybe Susan G and her crew can try to get the story, but it will be a lot harder than getting Guckert.

  by devtob on Tue Feb 22, 2005 at 03:04:29 PM PDT

•  Too bad Charles Taylor tolerance doesn't

  extend to torture victims at Abu Ghraib or any other places.  I guess even a broken clock reads accurately twice a day.

  by NoAlternative on Tue Feb 22, 2005 at 03:18:49 PM PDT

•  Maybe a little off topic

  But isn't it interesting that according to Salon today that Thornburgh. et. al. did not even interview Bill Burkett, the "source" of the memos for their investigation.

  by never forget 2000 on Tue Feb 22, 2005 at 03:22:01 PM PDT

•  But

  a belief is one thing, where is the proof????

  by fox99go on Tue Feb 22, 2005 at 03:33:56 PM PDT